Sandy Gillespie, writer and artist, lived in Alaska for twenty-two years. She worked as a professional artist and arts administrator and exhibited extensively in Alaska, including solo shows at the Anchorage Museum and the Alaska State Museum in Juneau. Her work is in the permanent collections of these institutions and the Museum of the North in Fairbanks. Gillespie currently works out of her Minneapolis studio. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UAF and continues to teach online for the Kachemak Bay Campus of UAA.